WhatsApp draws its interface — progress bars, the profile chip, the reply field, reactions, and captions — directly over your Status and Channel posts. If your text or logo sits in one of those bands it gets hidden. This guide overlays the exact dead zones on a 9:16 preview and reports the safe area in pixels so your key content always stays visible.
How it works
Each surface reserves a fraction of the 1080×1920 frame at the top, bottom, and sides for its UI. The tool multiplies those fractions by the frame’s 1920-pixel height and 1080-pixel width to give concrete reserved pixel counts, then subtracts them to compute the safe rectangle. The preview renders the top and bottom reservations as red bands and the remaining space as a green safe-zone outline. Status reserves about 12% top and 16% bottom; Channel posts reserve a larger bottom band for the caption and engagement row.
Tips and example
On a 1080×1920 Status canvas, the guide reports roughly 230 pixels reserved at the top and 307 at the bottom. Drop horizontal guide lines at those offsets in your design tool and keep all captions, faces, and calls to action between them. For a Channel post, expect a deeper bottom margin and pull your text up accordingly. Combine this with the WhatsApp Image Size Cheatsheet so you start from the correct frame size before placing content.